US social media researcher says authentic-seeming accounts have hundreds of thousands of followers
Photograph: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/GettyPhotograph: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/GettyRussia’s online trolling operation is becoming increasingly decentralised and is gaining “incredible traction” on TikTok with misinformation aimed at sowing doubt over events inDarren Linvill, professor at Clemson University, South Carolina, who has been studying the Kremlin-linkedResearch Agency troll farm operation since 2017, said it was succeeding in creating more authentic-seeming posts.
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